Marvelling at a host of great characters, oh, and that Dr. Strange guy too.

This may be harsh, but my favorite character in Dr. Strange was the Cloak of Levitation.It was decisive, powerful, loyal, and silly. Basically, the writers gave the Doctor a wearable guard dog to lighten him up. One of my closest friends is a surgeon, so I’ve seen adog-surgeon relationship first hand: the dog is the light of my friend’s life.

The dog balances the intensity of his job and his generalized frustration with all that annoying human relationship messiness. In real life and on scre...